After nearly 1,000,000 downloads (around 1.5 million, including all channels and video streams), the Man of God Network will undergo significant changes in 2025. In an effort to streamline and improve our podcasting ministries, the Man of God Network, which consists of seven distinct shows, will be consolidated into a single show: The Covenant Podcast by CBTSeminary. Rather than releasing new podcasts daily, we will move toward posting episodes 1-2 times per week with at least one new video per ...
Dec 30, 2024•2 min
Hyper-Calvinism in English Baptist circles in the 19th century grew and changed in significant ways. But rather than continue on into the 19th century too far, I want to take another approach to complete, for now, our look at hyper-Calvinism in Baptist circles. Let me point you to a 5 volume study entitled “The Strict Baptist Chapels of England.” For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Dec 19, 2024•12 min
William Gadsby was much more than a preacher to his Manchester congregation. He also wrote for them, which is surprising, given his poor education. He produced hymns for their worship, tracts for the controversies of the day, a magazine to edify them during the month, a catechism for their children, and sermons to read. For more information
Dec 12, 2024•11 min
What is your basic thinking on the subject of tithing from inheritance? In conjunction with the thought of tithing on the inheritance of money, what are your thoughts regarding tithing upon things such as life insurance policies, retirement accounts, and the equity from the sale of a home? For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Dec 09, 2024•21 min
Gadsby's errors in teaching are not unimportant, but they do remind us that the sovereign God is not bound to only work salvation through men with perfect doctrine. As the medieval saying goes, “God uses crooked sticks to draw straight lines.” For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Dec 05, 2024•12 min
This episode is a re-run, in preparation for an additional episode on tithing that will release next week. For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Dec 02, 2024•22 min
"Just over a year after John Gill’s death, another man was born who called himself a Strict and Particular Baptist. He stood in the line of those often called hyper-Calvinists. His name was William Gadsby and while he shared the strong Calvinism of Gill, his life circumstances and ministry were considerably different in some ways. If you have heard his name before, it is probably in relation to his well-known hymnal, usually referred to simply as “Gadsby’s Hymns”. He was a man of conviction and ...
Nov 28, 2024•11 min
What should we do when a wife is not convinced that she and her husband should take a call at a particular church, which would require them to move? For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Nov 25, 2024•22 min
B.B. Warfield: Led By the Holy Spirit | Narrated Puritan For more information about CBTS, visit CBTSeminary.org
Nov 20, 2024•45 min
1689 19:4 The Present Status of the Judicial Law | Confessing the Faith "This paragraph is clearly based on Calvin’s treatment of the judicial law in the Institutes. This treatment is very relevant in light of the idea of the abiding validity of the judicial law being espoused in our day." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org
Nov 19, 2024•4 min
Brethren, I know we’ve had one previous conversation on Shepherding the Afflicted through the preached word, but I’d like for us to narrow in our this specific situation of affliction. What doctrines or passages should we preached to minister to widows and widowers? What passages does the congregation need to hear for them to effectively minister to widows and widowers in the congregation? For more information visit, CBTSeminary.org...
Nov 18, 2024•22 min
"The question some of you may have been waiting to hear addressed is the relationship between John Gill and hyper-Calvinism. Does Gill qualify as such? For some historians and theological writers, to ask the question is to answer it: of course he was. For them, Gill is the arch hyper-Calvinist who espoused damaging errors and practices. Others claim that Gill was simply a Calvinist fully in line with the previous generations of Particular Baptists. And there are many others at various places alo...
Nov 14, 2024•12 min
Jonathan Edwards: The Best Means of Awakening Sinners | Narrated Puritan For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Nov 13, 2024•26 min
1689 19:3-4 The Threefold Division of the Law | Confessing the Faith "The Confession in these paragraphs distinguishes three types of laws in the law of Moses: the moral, the ceremonial, and judicial and asserts that the ceremonial and judicial have been fulfilled and abolished, but that the moral law continues to bind all men." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org
Nov 12, 2024•5 min
How may we shepherd ministerial aspirants under our ministry through the preached word? What aspects of Christ’s person and work do aspiring ministers need to hear? For more information visit CBTSeminary.org
Nov 11, 2024•22 min
John Murray: The Fear of God For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Nov 06, 2024•37 min
1689 19:2 The Ten Commandments | Confessing the Faith "Here the Confession teaches the substantial equivalence of the requirements of the law written on Adam’s heart with the Ten Commandments." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org
Nov 05, 2024•4 min
What doctrines or passages should we preach to minister to the souls of believers who wrest with assurance? What aspects of Christ’s person and work do doubting believers need to hear? For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Nov 04, 2024•23 min
Today, John Gill is predominantly known for his writings. These amounted to over 10,000 folio pages. A folio was the full sheet of paper, 19 by 24 inches, then used by printers. With this quantity of output, no wonder one man gave Gill the nickname, “Dr. Voluminous”. I’ll describe many of his writings in the next few minutes, but what is not usually appreciated is that virtually all of his publications grew out of his pastoral ministry. John Gill was first and foremost a pastor, serving a specif...
Oct 31, 2024•11 min
Charles Spurgeon: A Chat about Commentaries | Narrated Puritan For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Oct 30, 2024•30 min
1689 19:2 The Law Written in the Heart of Adam | Confessing the Faith "John Murray remarks, ‘The law of God confronts them and registers itself in their consciousness by reason of what they natively and constitutionally are’." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org
Oct 29, 2024•6 min
"Best of Pastor's Inbox" Keeping Your Heart in Ministry For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Oct 28, 2024•18 min
Sola Scriptura | Ron Miller | Preaching & Teaching For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Oct 25, 2024•38 min
John Gill Pt.3: Death of Elizabeth Gill | Particular Pilgrims "We learn the most about John and his daughter Elizabeth because when she died at age 12, he preached her funeral sermon. This was printed and he appended a short account of things she told her parents in the days leading up to her death. In the sermon John refers to her as “our dear child”. And at the service he suddenly had to break off his prepared remarks because “my affections will not permit me”. Later, he and his wife collected...
Oct 24, 2024•10 min
Jonathan Edwards: What Can We Do to Prevent Backsliding and Degeneracy? | Narrated Puritan "We must therefore dwell much upon the doctrines of repentance and conversion, the nature, necessity, and evidence thereof; and much urge the duty of self-examination, and open the deceits of the heart; bringing the unconverted under the work of the law, that they may be prepared to embrace the offer of the gospel. Moral duties must be treated of in an evangelical strain; and we must give unto every one hi...
Oct 23, 2024•10 min
1689 19:1 Of the Law of God | Confessing the Faith "The subject of this chapter has been a matter of controversy among Calvinistic Baptists. Some have pronounced the Confession, ‘Presbyterian’, or, ‘legalistic’, at this point, asserting that its Baptist authors were swayed by historical circumstances to conform to their Presbyterian or Puritan brothers on this issue." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org
Oct 22, 2024•3 min
"Best of Pastor's Inbox" Encouragements for Pastors with Lost Children For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Oct 21, 2024•18 min
The Mighty Angel & the Little Scroll | Rev. 10 | John Miller | Preaching & Teaching For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org
Oct 18, 2024•44 min
"In the last episode, we learned of John Gill’s early years up to the time of his baptism and membership in the Little Meeting at age 19. And as he suspected, his concerns about being asked to preach were immediately confirmed. For on the very day of his reception into membership, he was asked to expound Isaiah 53 in a private home. The next Sunday he was requested to preach, which he did, from 1 Cor. 2:2, “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified”. Other ser...
Oct 17, 2024•11 min
John Owen: The Fearful Eruptions Of Sin | Narrated Puritan For more information visit CBTSeminary.org
Oct 16, 2024•40 min
